New General Engineering Class and Its Educational Effects at Faculty of Engineering, University of Yamanashi

Abstract

The Faculty of Engineering at the University of Yamanashi has been reorganized from seven departments into one in 2024. The renewed Faculty of Engineering aims to cultivate interdisciplinary engineering talent and established the “General Engineering Class” for the first-year students. Students not only have the flexibility to select and decide their specialization at the end of their first year, but also benefit from a comprehensive and varied curriculum in the class. This paper introduces the initiatives of the class in its first year and analyzes trends in students’specialized course selections and educational effects based on questionnaire results.